Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
New Year quotes
New Year
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Learn from yesterday, live for today."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins."
Neil Gaiman
Author
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year."
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"Do one thing every day that scares you."
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"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been"
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"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."
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"Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked."
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"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
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"Heart is what drives us and determines our fate."
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"My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy."
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"Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination."
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"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."
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"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."
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"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
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"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
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"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn."
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"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
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"This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day by day, into the microcosmic single festive household, each with its own rituals and obsessions, rules and dreams. You didn't feel you could call people. They didn't feel they could phone you. How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons?"
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"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open."
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"Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace."
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"When we live apart from God, our lives get out of tune - out of harmony with others and with God. But if we live in tune with the Master, we, too, will find ourselves surrounded by His beautiful music. As this new year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you."
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"Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
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